And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending from the desert of Pharan, principal men, whose names are these:

And Moses sendeth them from the wilderness of Paran by the command of Jehovah; all of them are men, heads of the sons of Israel they are,

And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the Lord gave orders, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.

Moses did what the Lord had commanded, sending, from the desert of Paran, leading men, whose names are these:

Misit ergo illos Moses e deserto Paran, juxta sermonem Jehovae: et universi ipsi viri principes filiorum Israel erant.

And Moses, by the commandment of the Lord,.... By his power, permission, and leave, as Jarchi, that there might be no delay through his means:
sent them from the wilderness of Paran; from Rithmah or Kadeshbarnea, which seem to be one and the same place in that wilderness: this, as before observed, was on the twenty ninth day of Sivan: See Gill on Numbers 13:1,
all those were heads of the children of Israel; were not mean and vulgar men, but persons of rule, who bore some office of magistracy ant government among the people in their respective tribes.

those men were heads of the children of Israel--Not the princes who are named (Numbers 10:14-16, Numbers 10:18-20, Numbers 10:22-27), but chiefs, leading men though not of the first rank.